france's military confirms it's guarding one of the biggest uranium mines in. all its owners say they want to mining deal with could be looking for other worldwide. strains prime minister travels to germany ahead of the e.u. budget talks economic troubles and corruption allegations remain for him at home. the artistic director of moscow's a world famous bolshoi ballet has to germany for a specialist i treatment for saying he knows who is behind the violent acid attack on him two weeks ago.

this is from a very snowy moscow. show with worldwide top story right now by the president has confirmed that a french troops have been guarding one of the country's biggest you're a new mines it's all in a bid to avoid a repetition of last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria let's go the details right now thomas joins us live right here in the studio good to see you today so french troops already in mali and now we've got some boots on the ground in need because they need to protect mine is that correct yes certainly it's been an interesting situation developing for a while now and we've had some thoughts but now it has been confirmed in fact as president confirms that france has sent special forces troops to his country specifically to guard one of the largest during your minds and there in fact it's the arlette mine right here. and you can see its proximity to mali but the mine in

question is the facility a location in which the french company a river has a large stake now there have been problems before the. that would justify a move to increase the security presence there just three years ago five french workers were kidnapped from the arlette mined by islamists four of those hostages are still being held in the region today now it's important to know that this is the second mission in africa completely separate from france's mission in mali. and it's been going which has been going on for nearly a month as neighbors mali and the situation there continues to remain unstable the french government is making it clear that they are ready and willing to protect their assets in the region and on the african continent as a whole protecting assets in the region many know that gets most of its energy from nuclear power hence the uranium is very very important indeed so massive economic concerns there indeed but as you also mentioned we've called the french led multinational intervention going in mali now boots on the ground in nigeria where it's certainly getting a lot of reaction from critics around the world at the moment certainly has been if

you ask france they've pointed to the incident that happened last month in eastern algeria when islam ists took over a gas plant there eventually leading to forty eight people being killed thirty seven of those foreign workers france is predicting that more islamist retaliation to french presence in africa is likely and they say they want to prevent a tragic situation like this from happening again but then again is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium a product that is vital to the french economy in fact it's estimated that nearly all or at least seventy five percent of france's electric infrastructure is dependent on nuclear power given this it makes sense that france would want to protect that resource at all costs the president has welcomed the french presence in the country and recognizes the need for the added security but has also stated that they want to better deal when it comes to uranium exports measures economy is also largely dependent on your radio as well critics have already been wary of french involvement in mali claiming that the real motivation is

a return to imperialism economic policy and a stronger control of a region that used to be french territory. now with france's expansion into neighboring countries compiled with president expressing his concerns those critics now have a bit more that they can chew on and certainly over to the critics are talking about about it for imperialist ideologies and also saying that it appears that french troops apparently this point of fanning across the region certainly hotting up the thomas thank you. well while the president francois a lot of may be hailing the ongoing french military campaign in west africa as a success that's more than can be said about his politics back at home but the story now from paris and our tears maria phoenician. well president all round is welcomed as a liberator in mali after france's military operation against the islamists occupation back at home crowds are also gathered but with a starkly different mood where people are fired up over the continued decline of

europe's second largest economy despite the president's promises to create at least one hundred thousand new jobs the nation is shedding them at an alarming rate last november about a thousand every day the worst figures in years the country's unemployment is approaching a shocking eleven percent with more than three million jobless the french daily lives claims that the exact situation could be even worse if official statistics included youngsters never registered for the unemployment program or those who left it and those stuck with part time work the paper says the rate would then triple but there are certain. people expected to have a strong president and they understand that on doesn't have enough experience or competence to improve things is too weak as we see it from. the fans who are so you know believes the strategic mistake was to rectify the e.u.'s so-called three percent treaty force in france to reduce its budget deficit down from four point

five percent by hiking taxes and cutting spending. but while harsh criticism expected from the opposition disapprovals also been growing from like minded left wingers or complain but i think the president especially of a country like france one of six e.u. founders should be strong enough to say stop to others and say hey i have my nation behind me and they elected me to make changes instead he surrendered because he's more worried about the country's debt and the ratings agencies make. in a short video french communists put together some of our lawns major presidential campaign vows none of which they say came true. look what that's all going to be oh the value added tax increase. i think it's inappropriate and unjustified and unreasonable and too hasty. what happened to well that's to remind a present with you remember you promised to review the european treaty how you

didn't do that here in germany said a three percent deficit isn't real but now only say it's possible etc etc you can't not do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise in the fringes of the breaking into four percent january and december's forty percent the more you see salons to office in may. every week that is a new subject to discuss in the french media and to draw people's attention from the real problems like game monitor deployed you are now in mali the strategy may work but not for long. after a long and wonder french election last year some analysts described his victory as a victory against his predecessor causey rather the long now of the scene many feel has to be there. in the. months of a long presidency have been anything but sunny happenings and even his one staunch supporters predict even harder times lie ahead for the leader of the country's

municipal elections in two thousand and fourteen have historically held great significance and will show whether the voters can forget and forgive. me for our team from paris. and i just days ahead of a crucial you set of budget talks the leader of the blocs toughest economy is meeting the head of one of its weakest german chancellor angela merkel will join forces with spain's prime minister mariano to hoyle to discuss the eurozone crisis though roy is facing massive criticism back at home with corruption allegations and the opposition calling ever louder for him to step down avoiders from berlin with r.t. correspondent peter. it could very well be called a meeting between the euro zone's haves and well quite frankly the have nots as german chancellor angela merkel sits down to talks with the spanish prime minister mariano what are quite germany still widely regarded as the euro zone's only real success economically while as many fear that spain could go the way of greece

now the spanish prime minister will receive the full welcome of germany including full military honors how are they if he was to turn up at the doorstep of many in his own country he may face severe criticism that's because many spanish citizens still think he hasn't done enough to deal with bank has the same basically the bearings are of this huge incredible feast run only by greed the government's not helping the people the topping the banks it has been at least thirty or fifty times the issue but in the last month there was three people they were going to be if you have to find out how it is but they hang themselves before the police were right there. i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one who can take care of him this meeting between the leaders of germany and spain

comes ahead of a very important summit taking place this week where european leaders will try and decide on the budget something which is separated countries within the union thus far. and in the meantime a professor at boston university laurence kotlikoff believes the crisis is rooted in the way the banking system is operated in an interview with. he said the banks need to be more transparent in order to gain the people's trust. the traditional banking system the model is one of very high leverage banks more a lot of money promise to repay and then there's opacity they they take their money and they do something with it but they don't tell you what they're doing with it so it's a very unstable situation when you promise people things. what you're doing with their money. and that's what happened with brothers.

merrill lynch and all these companies that one under one after the other everybody started worrying. so what we need to do is. get rid of this faith based banking we need to have. no leverage and we have to have transparency. and the full interview with the court of mr laurence kotlikoff that is about eighteen forty five g.m.t. . but for now the artistic director of moscow's bolshoi ballet is travelling to germany for specialist treatment after a violent acid attack against him just over two weeks ago doctors there will be trying to help to save sort of the feelings i cite the reporting from the hospital

where it was taken. he's doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their power to pull him out of a very difficult situation that he found himself in. third degree burns and those are very severe to his face and neck he said he's full of hope for a full recovery and he is full of willpower and he actually looked very enthusiastic and upbeat about the whole situation of course considering his circumstances actually he did appear to be quiet on his road to recovery and he did speak about person who is who has been supposedly behind the attack he did say that he knows exactly who it was on this particular day today they did not want to talk about the investigation at all so as not to interfere with the investigation he did however mention. he did every see threats before but he also mentioned and this is important according to the feeling himself he didn't mention that he's continuing

to work with everybody who has been left in charge of the theater he said that nothing about the boy story theatre is changing on the performances and everything about the theater will be carrying on as before. still ahead for you this hour here on our presumption of guilt. something coming to us now are guilty until proven innocent a cia veteran points the finger at his former employer saying the agency is compulsory polygraph tests on the law and simply ineffective details on that in just a couple of minutes. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people we live with. over sixty two percent and. this is

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british. margetts weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy. thanks so much for joining us here on. turning our attention now to kuwait where an opposition activist has reportedly been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the country's unelected rule on twitter is the third time a person has been convicted on such charges in that country but just just over the

last two months now speaking out against the mayor of kuwait who considered to be a state security charge going to international recently hit out of the monarchy for increasing wish strictures on freedom of expression and assembly protests have been raging against the government on its crackdown with dissent this going back to two thousand and eleven tension flared even more after december's parliamentary poll which was boycotted by the opposition m.p. claims the country's democracy has been disfigured. and if. we refute claims that the national assembly represents the people of kuwait around seventy percent of the people boycotted the election and the assembly itself was elected thanks to an unconstitutional to creep past by the government which wanted to parliament it could control its lawmakers have failed to address widespread allegations of corruption. democracy in kuwait has taken

a twisted form it is the only democracy which is seeing an increase of corruption we will continue to hold peaceful marches and peaceful rallies and we will continue to gather and protest. and while they are now to another monarchy that has its own problems with the opposition that of bahrain as we get into the of the world update now and see regime protesters there once again clashed with police in various parts of the country and the authorities used tear gas against the crowds which were hurling fire bombs at the gulf kingdom has been cracking down on pro-reform demonstrators for two years resting thousands including some very well known activists and the government claims it's taken steps to address the brutality of the security forces but opposition campaigners say daily assaults continue unabated . the number of victims from a suicide bomb attack on a group of anti al-qaeda fighters has risen to nineteen and more than forty wounded the incident took place as many gathered to collect their salaries outside an

office in a town just north of baghdad and the blast does come a day after several suicide attackers targeted a provincial police headquarters in kind of cook and that killed fifteen and wounded dozens. a skeleton found under a car park in the city of leicester in the u.k. has been confirmed is that of king richard the third of the monarch was lost in list with scuse me the last english king to be killed in battle that goes back to fourteen eighty five but his grave was lost in the sixteenth century after the demolition of the church he was buried next to the remains will be reinterred at leicester cathedral with the details of the real burial ceremony yet to be released . all right now iran says that israel will regret its latest aggression against syria and call on the entire muslim world to be ready to defend the country against the jewish state and this comes after president bashar assad claims syria could take on any force to confront said that accusing israel of trying to destabilize

his nation the statements follow sunday's comments by the israeli defense minister at a security conference in germany by iraq hinted that the i.d.f. was indeed behind last week's attack on a syrian arms convoy apparently destined for hezbollah militants in lebanon on moscow and the arab league criticized television for the alleged strike saying it's against international law or beirut based the middle east expert says damascus has a covert means if needed to retaliate against israeli aggression. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that. law is one of syria's allies iran is also one of syria's allies and it's important to note here that the the head of the supreme national security council the iranian supreme national security council side really not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be

other means used targeting for example certain israeli officials storing the trouble for israel in general and i think that that's something would syria is an expert at doing syria has on the side and also on the his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of his role once before because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not of your government. and on our website right now you can find a report that claims british police have been stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go undercover against political activists. disturbing details of r.t. dot com. plus the russian city which was host to one of the pivotal battles of world war two could work claim its former name on airing the country's soviet leader joseph stalin lot of that online on our web site.

there are thousands of people in america forced to undergo polygraph testing every year all in the name of national security and some experts are ringing the alarm over u.s. federal agencies exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who could be trusted more on this now to our correspondent more important. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and i and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s.

agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue interrogating or a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an

interrogation tool. there's a question that they trip that leads to indication of deception the drilling down. question that they get asked may well be quite true over the past ten years. at least fifteen federal agencies including the n.s.a. and f.b.i. have reportedly continued or expanded their polygraph screenings with nearly five million people having access to classified information washington maintains that polygraph testing is the most effective way from preventing secrets from being leaked lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do

understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is what are they willing to discuss what are they not willing to discuss however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing a polygraph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind the test was wrong. was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for sullivan his book detailing america's polygraph system subs are coming in for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent and i think that's. a corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to

draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of the. security. artsy. certainly hope you can stay with us here in just a minute or two we'll bring you the final parts of a feature length documentary on the occupy movement or the ripple effects of which are still being felt across america.

secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread shouting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidentally or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to

keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad as rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. well . science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. which.